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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secrets, Citing Exodus of 400+ Former Employees

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI on July 11, 2026, alleging systematic misappropriation of proprietary knowledge.

AI PolicyJuly 26, 2026

Third Leader Out in Four Months at US AI Standards Agency as Chris Fall Resigns from CAISI

Chris Fall resigned as CAISI director after only three months, becoming the third leadership change at the AI standards agency since March 2026

AI EthicsJuly 26, 2026

AI Tracks Now Make Up Over Half of Daily Uploads to Deezer

AI-generated tracks now exceed 50% of daily uploads to Deezer, up from about 10% in January 2025

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Anthropic Walks Back Plan to Pull Claude Fable 5 From Subscriptions After User Backlash

Anthropic scraps its original plan to remove Claude Fable 5 from subscriptions, keeping it in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of prior limits starting July 20, 2026

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Poolside's Tiny Laguna S 2.1 Beats a Giant Rival on Coding Benchmarks by a 4x Margin

Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 scores 40.4% on DeepSWE v1.1, far ahead of DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Max's 9.0% despite using about one-sixth the active parameters

EthicsJuly 26, 2026

Anthropic Doubles Down on AI Policy Spending With $20M More to Public First Action

Anthropic added $20 million to its support for Public First Action, bringing total contributions to $40 million since February 2026.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Microsoft Deepens Mistral Bet With Multi-Billion-Dollar European AI Infrastructure Push

Microsoft and Mistral AI expanded their partnership on July 21, 2026 with a multi-billion-dollar deal to build AI infrastructure across Europe

HardwareJuly 26, 2026

OpenAI Locks In 3.2 Gigawatts of Power for Its Georgia Megaproject, Codenamed Camellia

OpenAI's 'Project Camellia' data center in Effingham County, Georgia secures a 3.2 gigawatt power deal with Georgia Power, phased in from 2028 to 2032.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Microsoft's Record 570-Bug Patch Tuesday Doubles as an AI Sales Pitch

Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday fixed a record 570 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days in Windows Server and SharePoint.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Meta Puts a Price Tag on AI for the First Time With Muse Spark 1.1

Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid AI model with a public API, priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.

HardwareJuly 26, 2026

AMD Locks In Anthropic With $5 Billion Bet and Two-Gigawatt Chip Order

AMD will supply Anthropic with up to two gigawatts of Instinct MI450-series accelerators, with the first gigawatt deploying in H1 2027.

LLMsJuly 26, 2026

Gemini Closes In on ChatGPT as Google Reports 950 Million Monthly Users

Google's Gemini surpassed 950 million monthly active users as of Q2 2026, up from 750 million in February, while its Search AI Mode topped 1 billion users

Enterprise AIJuly 26, 2026

IBM's Mainframe Slump Forces a $1 Million-a-Year AI Pivot

IBM's mainframe revenue fell 42% in Q2, triggering a 25% single-day stock drop despite overall Q2 revenue of $17.2 billion and 58% gross margins

AI AgentsJuly 26, 2026

Monday.com Cuts 630 Jobs to Bet Its Future on AI Agents

Monday.com is laying off about 630 employees, roughly 20% of its workforce, as part of a July 2026 restructuring.

HardwareJuly 22, 2026

Behind the Hype: The Guardian's On-the-Ground Investigation Into AI's Datacentre Boom

The Guardian's investigation found a proposed £8.2bn AI datacentre complex in rural Scotland misrepresented plans to run entirely on on-site renewable energy.

ResearchJuly 22, 2026

A Shoestring Budget and a Printer-Sized Quantum Computer Just Improved Drug Discovery AI

DTU researchers paired a generative AI model with a compact quantum computer from ORCA Computing to design peptides that bind therapeutic protein targets

AI AgentsJuly 22, 2026

FoneClaw Lets You Run Your Android Phone by Just Talking to It

FoneClaw is a voice-controlled application for Android that supports more than 120 spoken commands

AI AgentsJuly 22, 2026

Helsing Raises $1.8B, Hits $18B Valuation, and Plants Its Flag in West Virginia

Helsing closed a $1.8 billion Series E round, valuing the Munich-based defense AI firm at $18 billion.

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